Integrated microsystem with humidity, temperature and light sensors for monitoring the preservation conditions of food

Cartasegna, D.; Conso, F.; Donida, Achille; Grassi, M.; Picolli, L.; Rescio, Gabriele; Malcovati, P.; Perretti, Giuseppe; Regnicoli, G. F.

doi:10.1109/icsens.2011.6127283

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“…Active RFID tags are the most expensive ones, while passive are the cheapest [97,147]. Thanks to the battery, active RFID tags could include sensor to evaluate food characteristics as temperature and humidity [25,26]. With these sensors, it is possible to know, for example, whether the cold chain was broken while shipping.…”

Section: Applications For Food Packaging and Logisticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Radiofrequency Identification and Surface Acoustic Wave Technologies for Developing the Food Intelligent Packaging Concept

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The food intelligent packaging (IP) technologies are reviewed with a particular emphasis on the possibilities of radiofrequency identification (RFID) and surface acoustic wave (SAW) technologies for developing the food IP concept. Passive RFID and SAW technologies are the more promising ones to achieve a food IP that can wirelessly communicate the food quality to the different agents of the food chain. However, some drawbacks and cost of these technologies are limiting their massive use in food IP. This is the reason why a lot of research works are being currently performed that focus on increasing functionality (e.g., enabling the tag antenna as a sensing device) and reducing costs of components and materials of these RFID and SAW systems. Furthermore, benefits can be also achieved by means of integrating the RFID, SAW, and other sensing technologies. The RFID and SAW technologies can be embedded in a wireless sensor network (WSN), and the corresponding tags and readers can build more intelligent networks by sharing the sensing, logic, and transmission capabilities of the sensor networks. The above two technologies can be integrated in two different ways: sensor-enabled tags-RFID or SAW (or RFID or SAW sensor tags)-and RFID and/or SAW-embedded WSN. The application of these technologies on secondary packages, as the paperboard packages, can dilute the costs of application on primary packaging and allow the massive use of these technologies in the food supply chain.

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Section: Applications For Food Packaging and Logisticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The impact of this technology in the supply chain has been evaluated for years [114]. So, with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), as RFID and SAW technologies, tracking information, and many other logistics operations in the food supply chain could be improved [25][26][27]34].…”

Section: Intelligent or Smart Packaging For Foods: Conceptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Radiofrequency Identification and Surface Acoustic Wave Technologies for Developing the Food Intelligent Packaging Concept

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“…A multi-sensor smart label, performing temperature, light intensity, and humidity tracing has been designed, developed and characterized [1]. This prototype has been thought to grant a high versatility for the evaluation in the field of food production and delivery.…”

Section: The Multi-sensor Tracing Smart Labelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…49.2, mounted on the measurement setup main board. The chip occupies an area of 4 mm 2 including pads [1] and has been specifically characterized in controlled environment in terms of read-out absolute precision for the temperature and light intensity range of interest for food tracing environmental monitoring applications. …”

Section: Smart Label Sensors and Read-out Circuits Characterizationmentioning

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Application of an Integrated Multi‐Sensor Circuit for Tracing Quality and Safety Storage Parameters of Sliced Cheese

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Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

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In this work, storage environment and food preservation quality parameters of a specific kind of sample (Emmental sliced cheese) were monitored for 32 days under four different storage conditions thanks to the development of a dedicated multisensor smart tag. Dry matter, pH value, colour index, and water activity, have been analyzed to estimate the quality of preservation of the food samples over time. Furthermore, the long-term reliability and performance of the ad-hoc developed fullyintegrated smart label system for food tracing has been validated. The low-power multi-sensor integrated circuit, employed to continuously monitor the conservation parameters for the sliced cheese samples, has been fabricated in 0.18 µm CMOS technology, and includes temperature, light intensity and optional humidity sensors with the respective interface circuits and a common A/D converter. Collected sensors data have been then studied together with physical and chemical analyses to find correlations between the conservation quality of food samples and the collected environmental data history.

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“…The smart label is equipped with a microbattery and may be read-out and temporarily power supplied from a remote, wireless gate. The core module for the device development is an integrated microsystem which includes three different sensors, capable to read-out humidity, temperature and light intensity and very low power circuits for signal conditioning and analog to digital conversion [ 3 ].…”

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A Fully-Integrated Multi-Sensor System for Food Tracing and Quality Certification Providing Temperature, Light Intensity, and Humidity Exposure History of Samples

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Grassi

Picolli

et al. 2013

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

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This chapter is about the design and experimental characterization of an integrated prototype for tracing food preservation quality along the distribution chain by monitoring its environmental preservation conditions. The system includes humidity, temperature, and light intensity sensors with the respective interface circuits and an A/D converter. The target application of the microsystem is a smart tag including an RFID transponder for collecting energy and transmitting data, as well as a micro-battery for energy storage. The developed microsystem has been fabricated in a 0.18 μm CMOS technology and achieves better than 0.5 °C and 6 W/m 2 accuracy for temperature and light intensity respectively, while nominally consuming less than 1 μA at 1.8 V supply. Chemical on-chip capacitor dielectric composition, based on Sylgarl 184 polymer, is being optimized for maximum sensitivity response in terms of permittivity with respect to air relative humidity, while further investigation about correlation between real food samples preservation and measured environmental parameters exposure history is being carried out.

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Integrated microsystem with humidity, temperature and light sensors for monitoring the preservation conditions of food

Cited by 8 publications

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Radiofrequency Identification and Surface Acoustic Wave Technologies for Developing the Food Intelligent Packaging Concept

Radiofrequency Identification and Surface Acoustic Wave Technologies for Developing the Food Intelligent Packaging Concept

Application of an Integrated Multi‐Sensor Circuit for Tracing Quality and Safety Storage Parameters of Sliced Cheese

A Fully-Integrated Multi-Sensor System for Food Tracing and Quality Certification Providing Temperature, Light Intensity, and Humidity Exposure History of Samples

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